Alena Popova - Justice for Journalists

Alena Popova

Affiliated media: Krymsky Teren, Blogger

Incident date: December 13, 2021

Attack type:

  • Bullying, intimidation, pressure, threats of violence and death, including cyber-

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Telegram channel «Fox and Crow»

Location: Republic of Crimea, Simferopol

Additional information:

The pro-Russian Telegram channel «Fox and Crow» published information about the pro-Ukrainian blogger Alena Popova. The publication claims that Popova is an anti-Russian agent, «one of the brightest Russophobe personalities,» and has cooperated with Ukrainian and Czech NGOs. At the bottom of the post, there was a picture of Popova.

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